Phone emulation not working for searches (Platform Spoofing)

[Filaipus]

I feel this has happened before in older versions of ABS (before it was removed from the app store), but this is the first time it started happening with your version @h4x0rm1k3

Basically phone searches are not counting. Automatic searches AND manual. I'm using Google Chrome (Version 100.0.4896.75)
Is there anything I can collect on my side to try to figure out what is going on? Do you think this is maybe a ME issue? A Chrome issue?

Not sure how to help solve this but thought I'd let you know. It has been happening for a few days now.

[JourneyOver]

Yea I've kinda had problems with search not working its best for a while, what I ended up doing that seems to have fixed it was change

diff --git a/src/background-scripts/search.js b/src/background-scripts/search.js
index 73987f6..e5c84dc 100644
--- a/src/background-scripts/search.js
+++ b/src/background-scripts/search.js
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ async function search(isMobile) {
   return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
     const query = await getSearchQuery();
     chrome.tabs.update(currentSearchingTabId, {
-      url: `https://bing.com/search?q=${query}`,
+      url: `https://bing.com/images/search?q=${query}`,
     }, () => {
       // we expect an error if there is the tab is closed, for example
       if (chrome.runtime.lastError) return reject(chrome.runtime.lastError);

and search has been working just fine since with microsoft rewards counting all searches correctly.

[h4x0rm1k3]

Hi both,

Not sure what's going on as all searches are working for me and a friend who uses it too. All mobile, desktop & Edge searches are getting done. In fact it all seems to be working just right again now including the rewards tasks. I'll test out the fix that's been mentioned on 1 of my accounts and if it works and you come back and say it works also i'll push the update fully.

[Filaipus]

Yesterday the searches all worked perfectly. I didn't change anything... This might be more on Chrome side than the extension (even though there was no update). Something about the spoofing on chrome seems to not be 100% viable.

[aKa-0z]

I've been having this issue for a week or two now (for mobile searches). I just updated to your recent version a few days ago, which fixed quizzes not starting automatically for me at least (thanks for that ). I've been trying to mess with the times and even increasing it to 1 search per minute and doubling the searches, but the amount it registers seems to being random and usually less than 50/100.

I use Brave btw as it was easy to create separate profiles on desktop. Would you recommend me trying a different browser?
Edit: So I changed what was mentioned above. If this fixes my issue tomorrow I'll make an update.

[Filaipus]

tested again today and no luck. Really weird. I'll wait a few days and just do manual searches and see if it fixes itself... (if you have any ideas of what I could try let me know)

[aKa-0z]

The change JourneyOver suggested fixed my issue. I got all of my points from the searches and I had it set to a 3-7 second delay.

[h4x0rm1k3]

@JourneyOver I've added the fix you mentioned, please let me know if I added it correctly, I'm sure I did as it looked like it was only changing the search term is that correct that you can see? If not let me know and i'll change it. @Filaipus I use Chrome which can basically do the same thing and create multiple user accounts with individual shortcuts on the desktop as well. It's what I use and I think a lot of others and seems to be working fine at the moment. Little warning with messing with the delays is that the rewards tasks are only delayed for 3 minutes so you HAVE to have ALL of your searches done before 3 minutes else they'll interfere with the rewards tasks running and completing, hopefully the implemented fix should resolve your problem so you can go back to normal delays.

[JourneyOver]

I've added the fix you mentioned, please let me know if I added it correctly, I'm sure I did as it looked like it was only changing the search term is that correct that you can see?

Yep, it looks correct to me.

Thankfully I came across people having this issue when doing manual searches as well (though threads about the issue was several years old) and seen some people talking about doing image searches instead worked for them and that's what led me to trying out image searches instead of normal in the search portion of ABS and it started working a lot better in terms of gaining all the points for searches (so far there hasn't been a day where I was missing a random amount of points in the points breakdown portion for searches).

[Filaipus]

@h4x0rm1k3 It started not counting the mobile searches again. Noticed it a few days ago. Im still on chrome (Version 109.0.5414.120 this time)

If there's any logs or any debugging I can do to help figure out what changed, let me know. Chrome is doing something weird with it's spoofing I guess. Everything else works great.

[Filaipus]

And today, doing it manually, worked perfectly. Zero idea what is going on. Can't figure it out for the life of me

[h4x0rm1k3]

@Filaipus All seems to be working fine my end, all searches, dailies, weeklies all done fine today and days previous. I've also still no news on Manifest V3 version of ABS as I got stuck at 1 point but have found a way forward when Chrome moves over to Manifest V3 and that is to move over to Brave browser because they're leaving support in for Manifest V2 to work alongside V3 as they're also a Chromium based browser, everything imports from Chrome nicely, looks pretty much like Chrome & all the add ons work for it too!